When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best.

If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.